The Bookrunner: A History of Inter-American Relations -- Print, Politics, and Commerce in the U.S. and Mexico, Transactions, American

by Nancy J. Vogeley

In the first decade of the 19th century the U.S. and Mexico reached out to one another to initiate diplomacy, trade, and cultural borrowings. Each faced the task of decolonization and nation-building. This book explores the political and cultural history of Mexico at the time of its independence from Spain. At the center of the study are letters written to the Philadelphia book publisher Mathew Carey by Thomas Robeson, a book agent Carey sent to Mexico...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606180118
• ISBN13: 9781606180112
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 341 Pages